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MARTYRS OF THE VIA CORNELIA - 19 JANUARY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 19th of January WELCOME! SAINTS MARIS, MARTHA, AUDIFAX, AND ABACHUM (MARTYRS OF THE VIA CORNELIA) Maris [Marius], a nobleman of Persia, with his wife Martha, and two sons,  Audifax and Abachum , being converted to the faith, distributed his fortune among the poor, as the primitive Christians did at Jerusalem, and came to Rome to visit the tombs of the apostles.  The emperor Aurelian then persecuted the church, and by his order a great number of Christians were shut up in the amphitheater, and shot to death with arrows, and their bodies burnt.  DURING THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS Our saints gathered and buried their ashes with respect; for which they were apprehended, and after many torments under the governor Marcianus, Maris and his two sons were beheaded; and Martha drowned, thirteen miles from Rome, at a place now called Santa Ninfa. Their relics were found at Rome in 1590.  They are mentioned with...

ST WULSTAN, BISHOP - 19 JANUARY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY   Saints celebrated on the 19th of January   Prayer to the Angels and the Saints Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation. In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven. Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses. Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blesse...

SAINT FEAST DAY 19 JANUARY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY ➡️ Tomorrow ⬅️ Yesterday Saint of the Day Saint feast day January 19 Saint Felan, Abbot   Saint Abundantia of Spoleto, Virgin Blessed Andrew a Pisceria, Religious Saint Arsenius, Bishop Saint Asinius, Bishop of Chur Saint Bassianus, Bishop of Lodi Saint Blaithmaic, Abbot and Martyr Saint Branwallader, Missionary Saint Canute, King and Martyr   Saint Dagobert, Bishop of Bourges Dagobert I., King Saint Euphrasia, Virgin and Martyr Saint Henry, Archbishop of Upsala, Martyr Venerable Hermann Cohen, Carmelite Priest Saint Hugh, Archbishop of Rouen Saint Joseph Sebastian Pelczar, Bishop Saint Lomer, Abbot Marianna Johanna Bachmayr, Virgin Mark the Cattle Herder, Religious Pastor, Martyr Saint Remedius, Confessor Saint Wulstan, Bishop of Worcester   Saint Lucian and Companions, Martyrs Martyrs of the Via Cornelia   Saints Pia, Picaria, and Companions, Martyrs The Holy Infant of Cebu -1901-

SAINT FEAST DAY 19 JANUARY: ST FELAN

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 19th of January WELCOME! SAINT FELAN, ABBOT St Felan's [Foelan, Fillan, Faolan] name is famous in the ancient Scottish and Irish Calendars. The example and instructions of his pious parents, Feriach and St Kentigerna , inspired him from the cradle with the most ardent love of virtue.  In his youth, despising the flattering worldly advantages to which high birth and a great fortune entitled him, he received the monastic habit from a holy abbot named Mundus, and passed many years in a cell at some distance from the monastery, not far from St Andrew’s.  HE RECEIVED THE MONASTIC HABIT He was by compulsion drawn from this close solitude, being chosen abbot.  His sanctity in this public station shone forth with a bright light.  After some years, he resigned this charge, and retired to his uncle Congan, brother to his mother, in a place called Siracht, a mountainous part of Glendarchy, now in Fifeshire, where,...